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"That is a line of a college drinking-song!"

The speaker was a young ht-and-twenty; who sat between

Rosa and Mabel, and whose attentions to the latter were h cheek-bones, that

gave a Gaelic cast to his physiogno in particular when at rest, and followed somewhat tardily

the operations of his mind when he talked, he would probably have

been the least likely person present to rivet a stranger's notice

but for the circumstance that he played shadow to the host's sister

and was Mrs Aylett's brother With regard to the feeling

entertained by the former of those ladies for him, there were many

and diverse opinions, but his sister's partiality was unequivocally

exhibited Of her three brothers, this--the youngest, the least

handsome, and the only bachelor--was her favorite She took pains to

apprise his fellow-guests of this interesting fact by petting hi hi colors

"It is," she answered hily "What a memory you have,

my dear Herbert! Now I am never positive hom to credit a

quotation I recollect, since you have spoken, that your famous